A good day for Chennai Super Kings as they moved to the semi finals beating Mumbai Indians by 7 Wickets in yesterday’s match held in St George’s Park, Port Elizabeth.

IPL 2009 – Match 47 – Chennai Super Kings Vs Mumbai Indians – Full Scorecard
Duminy compiled yet another 50 to take his side to a decent score

Duminy compiled yet another 50 to take his side to a decent score

Sachin Tendulkar captain of Mumbai Indians won the toss and elected to bat first. Sanath Jayasuriya and Bravo opened the innings. Morkel bowled a superb yorker to dislodge the off stump of Bravo in the first ball of third over. Duminy was the next man in. Poor fielding of Chennai Super Kings continued and they gave away two boundaries in two balls instead of singles. Jayasuriya break free during 5th over and hit 2 sixes and 2 fours. He lost his wicket in the last ball of powerplay trying to hit over the top after scoring quick 30 runs in 17 balls. Tyagi was the bowler and Raina pouched the catch at covers. Sachin joined Duminy to consolidate the Mumbai innings. During strategic break the score was 75/3. Raina took the wicket of Sachin immediately after the break. Muralidaran and Raina bowled some tight overs and conceded only 26 Runs in 5 overs after break. Dhoni missed an easy stumping chance of Nayar of the bowling of Raina.  Duminy played well and got yet another fifty in this IPL. He was runout by Morkel in the last over after scoring 62 runs in 54balls. Mumbai Indians just managed to score 147/5 in 20 overs. Chennai Super Kings bowled well to restrict Mumbai Indians to below 150.

Hayden and MS Dhoni ensured comfortable vicotry for Chennai Super Kings

Hayden and MS Dhoni ensured comfortable victory for Chennai Super Kings

Chennai Super Kings opened their innings with Parthiv Patel and big boss Haydos. Parthiv Patel got out lbw the first ball of the innings to purple cap holder slinger Malinga. Raina was the next batsman in and played aggressively scoring 20 runs in 12 balls including 2 big sixes. Bravo got the wicket of Raina. Hayden struggled to score runs and looked in all sorts of trouble. Chennai Super Kings just managed to score 56/2 in the first 10 overs with Hayden struggling at 15 in 28 balls. Kulkarni got the wicket of Badrinath after the strategic break and he scored 22 runs in 23 balls. Dhoni was the next man in. Hayden managed to score his first boundary of the match in the 13th over and this should suggest how much he struggled with the bat. But after that he got his touch and scored runs quickly with Dhoni. They took Chennai Super Kings to a 7 wicket victory with 5 balls to spare. Hayden was the man of the match for scoring 60 runs in 57 balls. MS Dhoni scored 19 runs from 21 balls.

With this loss Mumbai Indians now were out of the tournament and Chennai Super Kings ensured their place in semi finals. Now the competition is between 4 teams to find a place in semi finals.

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